.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 256 119
Rank change year-on-year -54 -137 +31
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 401 449 1,857
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.23% 2.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.57% 5.61% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 366 389 1,777
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,496 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,193 8,010 16,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.49% 21.87% 21.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,480 5,949 13,778
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -61 112 £55,000 - 48
London -37 93 £80,000 - 58
South East -47 63 £60,000 +14.29% 60
North West -35 62 £55,000 - 26
Midlands -33 60 £65,000 +23.81% 26
East Midlands -15 46 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -14 39 £55,000 -24.14% 16
East of England -20 26 £90,000 +80.00% 27
Yorkshire -56 26 £42,500 -15.00% 13
North East -12 24 £62,500 +38.89% 10
West Midlands -27 14 £60,000 +4.35% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.00%) IIS
1 8 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.25%) Magento
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 237 (59.10%) Azure
2 88 (21.95%) AWS
3 62 (15.46%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (12.47%) Serverless
5 40 (9.98%) SaaS
6 34 (8.48%) GitHub
7 31 (7.73%) Power Platform
8 25 (6.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (5.49%) Azure Functions
9 22 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (4.24%) Azure AKS
11 16 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.49%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.49%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.24%) Amazon EventBridge
14 13 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.25%) AMQP
3 1 (0.25%) HTTP
3 1 (0.25%) Modbus
3 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (37.91%) SQL Server
2 52 (12.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (8.73%) MongoDB
4 32 (7.98%) NoSQL
5 27 (6.73%) Power BI
6 24 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (3.99%) MySQL
8 13 (3.24%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.24%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.00%) Redis
10 2 (0.50%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (12.97%) Git
2 9 (2.24%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.00%) JIRA
5 3 (0.75%) NUnit
5 3 (0.75%) Vite
5 3 (0.75%) webpack
6 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.50%) MSTest
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.25%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
7 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (12.72%) Finance
2 44 (10.97%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.24%) Law
4 15 (3.74%) Games
5 13 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.00%) Banking
8 8 (2.00%) Front Office
9 5 (1.25%) Advertising
9 5 (1.25%) Marketing
9 5 (1.25%) Retail
10 3 (0.75%) Automotive
10 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.75%) Legal
10 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.50%) Local Government
11 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 279 (69.58%) Developer
2 133 (33.17%) .NET Developer
3 113 (28.18%) Senior
4 89 (22.19%) Software Developer
5 69 (17.21%) C# Developer
6 68 (16.96%) Senior Developer
7 51 (12.72%) Full-Stack Developer
8 50 (12.47%) Lead
9 49 (12.22%) Software Engineer
10 40 (9.98%) C# .NET Developer
11 27 (6.73%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 26 (6.48%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (6.48%) Lead Developer
12 26 (6.48%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (5.74%) Applications Developer
13 23 (5.74%) React Developer
14 22 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (4.49%) Senior .NET Developer
15 18 (4.49%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (100.00%) .NET
2 133 (33.17%) ASP.NET
3 101 (25.19%) React
4 86 (21.45%) .NET Framework
5 63 (15.71%) RESTful
6 56 (13.97%) ASP.NET Core
6 56 (13.97%) HTML
7 55 (13.72%) AngularJS
7 55 (13.72%) Blazor
7 55 (13.72%) Entity Framework
8 54 (13.47%) CSS
9 38 (9.48%) Vue
10 31 (7.73%) Node.js
10 31 (7.73%) REST
11 29 (7.23%) ASP.NET MVC
11 29 (7.23%) ASP.NET Web API
12 14 (3.49%) Dapper ORM
12 14 (3.49%) HTML5
13 13 (3.24%) AWS CDK
13 13 (3.24%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.24%) Sports Betting
7 8 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.00%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.50%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.00%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.00%) Social Network
9 4 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.99%) VMS
2 6 (1.50%) Windows
3 5 (1.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (36.16%) Full-Stack Development
2 137 (34.16%) Agile
3 112 (27.93%) Software Engineering
4 111 (27.68%) CI/CD
5 97 (24.19%) DevOps
6 90 (22.44%) Microservices
7 68 (16.96%) MVC
8 61 (15.21%) Containerisation
9 59 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (12.47%) SDLC
11 43 (10.72%) Clean Code
12 41 (10.22%) OO
13 39 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (9.23%) Collaborative Culture
15 32 (7.98%) AI
15 32 (7.98%) Analytics
15 32 (7.98%) Mentoring
16 30 (7.48%) Infrastructure as Code
17 29 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
17 29 (7.23%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 350 (87.28%) C#
2 170 (42.39%) SQL
3 115 (28.68%) JavaScript
4 56 (13.97%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.73%) PowerShell
6 24 (5.99%) Python
7 12 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (2.24%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.50%) Bash
9 6 (1.50%) Rust
10 5 (1.25%) Java
11 4 (1.00%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) Erlang
12 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) C++
13 2 (0.50%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) F#
Qualifications
1 31 (7.73%) Degree
2 14 (3.49%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.74%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.24%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.49%) QA
2 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.50%) GDPR
2 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.50%) ITGC
2 2 (0.50%) SLA
2 2 (0.50%) WCAG
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 87 (21.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.98%) Terraform
3 2 (0.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 123 (30.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.75%) Google
3 6 (1.50%) Adobe
4 5 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (1.25%) Facebook
5 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.50%) Databricks
5 2 (0.50%) Foundry
5 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.50%) YouTube
6 1 (0.25%) Apple
6 1 (0.25%) IBM
6 1 (0.25%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle
6 1 (0.25%) Sony
6 1 (0.25%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.25%) Yahoo!